It is said that there are two ways to know a thing.

One is to know it, and the other is to know where to look it up.

While that is true for academic knowledge, it isn’t good enough for real life.

To really know a thing, you must be able to teach it to a child.

When you can explain it to a child, you can honestly say that you know and understand that thing.

The only way I know to really understand the thing is to do it.

It’s the activity that will teach you how to do it.

One of my sales trainers used to say that the work will teach you how to do it.

You can only ever plan the guidelines for a sales call because the client will not have read your notes and therefore isn’t going to ask the right questions.

They will always ask at least one question for which you hadn’t planned the answer.

In the early days, I didn’t have the answer to the outlier question and so missed the sale.

Later I did have the answers for all sorts of outliers, and my sales ratio to calls improved.

I find the same pattern appearing when I write programs, the stumbling blocks are where I learn new ways.

Similarly with building funnels, making videos, building an email list etc. I can’t solve the problems until I come across them.

Once they’re solved, I can move on to the next problem until the software, funnel or email list is working as I want.

And sometimes, the problem is insurmountable, which means a rethink and a re-route are required.

Not all activities go in a straight line from go to whoa, but that doesn’t mean you are prevented from getting to whoa.

Make your own path.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S.  Because you’ll be coming across problems and obstacles with everything you attempt, perfection is not something humans can achieve.

That doesn’t mean that you never aim for the perfect post, video or eBook.

Of course you always do the best you can, and you’ll get better and better the more you do, but perfection is always out of reach.

It’s better to reach for the stars and fall short than never to reach or quit because you didn’t get to the stars.

It helps to embrace your imperfections, accept that we all have them, and keep moving in your chosen direction.

This might help. https://brentm.systeme.io/7166856d